A survey of 840 men and women by an organization called Date Psychology set out to answer a question most guys have never thought to ask: can your hobbies make you more attractive? The answer, it turns out, is a hard yes, and the number-one answer at the top of the attractive list costs exactly nothing. Speeed, the creator behind the countdown, walked through every rank with the kind of blunt, self-aware commentary that makes the findings land harder than a dry research summary ever could.
The hobbies women found least appealing
The least attractive list opens at number ten with makeup and works its way through some genuinely surprising territory. Crypto lands at nine, not because the technology is the problem but because self-identifying as ‘a crypto guy’ carries its own baggage. Cigars at eight get a more generous reading: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the argument goes, looks completely natural with a stogie, and that ease is what separates cool from try-hard. Clubbing at seven makes the list because of the first-date mental image it conjures, the kind of guy who maybe does not have his priorities straight, though the distinction between ‘I like dancing’ and ‘I like clubbing’ is thin and telling. Marijuana at six gets compared to drinking: once something stops being outlaw and becomes legal, announcing it as your primary hobby loses its rebellious edge fast.
Funko Pop collecting at number five is the first brand name on the list, and the reaction is genuine surprise that it outranks marijuana, cigars, and makeup. The concern is less about the toys themselves and more about what a wall of them signals to someone walking into your home for the first time. Arguing online at four is called a near-synonym for a particular kind of Reddit energy. Gambling at two is the one that drew a real-world check: his wife Ri confirmed it was unattractive ‘unless you win.’ And the number-one least attractive hobby, manosphere content consumption, prompted the most serious moment in the entire countdown. ‘I do acknowledge that there are specific challenges and hardships that young men have to deal with,’ he said, ‘but this is a perverse, nerdy way of handling that stuff.’
What actually moves the needle in the other direction
The attractive side of the list runs woodworking at five, which nobody argued with. Cooking at four gets a full endorsement, with a nod to how Matty Matheson built what he called ‘zaddy status’ entirely on the strength of knowing how to feed people. Playing instruments lands at three, though the caveat is sharp: a guy who is good at guitar is genuinely attractive, but a guy who is bad at the violin moves quickly from cool to annoying. Foreign languages at two prompts the most skeptical read of the whole list. ‘That guy does not exist,’ he says flatly, placing the fantasy somewhere in the territory of a twilight novel.
Number one is reading. The case is simple and delivered without much ceremony: it is free, libraries exist, it is easier than woodworking and definitely easier than learning an instrument, and anyone can start today. He offered to buy a pizza for any viewer who reads sixteen books by March 19th.
The Paul Walker above the door frame
Somewhere above a door frame in his house, a tiny Paul Walker figurine sits watching over the room.
The Takumi Fujiwara is hidden somewhere too, exact location undisclosed.
